Media Composer
Avid Screencast #14: Spice Up Text with Video
Sometimes the good, old title with static text just doesn’t cut it. In this episode, we’ll make the text be another layer of video.
2010-01-28
Tag: editing
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #12: Animated Photo Slideshow
Create a visually interesting photo slideshow by stacking the photos on top of each other and animating them!
2010-01-14
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #10: Special Episode – Obscure Faces
PLEASE NOTE: This is a special Christmas Episode, so… be prepared for that 🙂 Sometimes, you need to obscure the face of a person, be it for legal or aesthetic reasons. In this episode, we’ll do just that using a very special technique. Check out the blog entry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc10
2009-12-24
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #07: Kill Bill Effect
Create a high-contrast colorized look to your image to make it pop! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc07
2009-12-13
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #04: Changing the Field Order
In this episode, we’ll combat the stuttery mess of wrongly imported or ingested interlaced video footage by swapping the field order with the help of the Matte Key real-time effect. Buckle up, this one’s going to get geeky! And don’t forget to check out the show notes for more. Check out the blog enry for
2009-12-12
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #01: Real-Time Reflections
In this episode, we’ll create shiny reflections of video as you may know them from the iTunes Store or advertisements. To accomplish that, we’ll use the real-time 3D Warp effect and all of it is going to take less than five minutes! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc01
2009-12-12
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard
In this episode, we’ll increase your productivity by being able to quickly switch between different timeline views. For example, just press a button on your keyboard and automatically enlarge the audio tracks while turning on the audio waveforms. It’s quick and easy! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc02
2009-12-12
Avid DS
Rack Focus Effect in DS using Boris Continuum AVX Plug in
BCC AVX for DS’s Lens Blur filter emulates a real-world defocused lens effect where the out-of-focus highlights of an image clip take on the shape of the blades that control the size of the lens diaphragm. In this video tutorial, we use the BCC Lens Blur filter to create a rack focus effect, which is
2009-12-10
Media Composer
Track and Stabilize Motion in Avid® Media Composer® to Great Effect – Media Composer Cutting Edge
With Avid Media Composer, you can tame shaky hand-held video footage, mask out or color-correct moving objects and elements, and create visual effects more easily using the built-in motion tracking, stabilization, Paint, and AniMatte tools. Learn how in this Cutting Edge video.
2009-11-30
Media Composer
Mix and Match in Media Composer 4 – Media Composer Cutting Edge
When you need to cut together multiple video clips from a variety of sources in mixed resolutions, nothing gives you the speed or superb image quality of the new Mix and Match features in Avid Media Composer 4. Forget hardware transcoding; with Media Composer 4 software, you can freely mix and match HD and SD
2009-10-02
Avid DS
DS Timewarps
[almost] Everything you ever wanted to know about Timewarps (but were afraid or too lazy to read the manual to find out). Covers DS’s Constant, Hold, Speed, and Input Speed Timewarps
2009-08-03
Media Composer
Read Audio Timecode – Media Composer Cutting Edge
Gain more flexibility during production with Read Audio Timecode, a feature in Avid Media Composer that allows you to capture audio and video separately and then automatically synchronize the sources together as you begin editing. During production, you use an external timecode generator to sync the internal clock of the sound recorder, while feeding the
2009-07-25
Avid DS
Custom Slates in DS
A couple of ways to make quickly-accessable custom slate backgrounds in DS
2009-02-27
Avid DS
2009-02-25
Avid DS
Avid DS Email Notification
Avid DS will send you an email when it’s done processing your sequence. Here’s how to set it up.
2009-02-14
